HC Deb 21 June 1965 vol 714 cc133-4W
30. Mr. Wall

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on the progress of negotiations with the United Arab Republic Government on re-sequestrated British property.

Mr. George Thomson

The forms to which my hon. Friend referred in his reply to the hon. and gallant Member's Question on 14th May are being distributed to owners of British property sequestrated and nationalised in the United Arab Republic since the 1st of March, 1959. Only a few replies have so far been received. Until they have been obtained from most of the owners concerned we shall not be able to complete the preparations for the negotiations which we have proposed to the United Arab Republic authorities on this question.